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I'll give you a better idea: Instead of spending $149 to pay for an AT&T femtocell, buy an Ooma VoIP phone for about the same money, plug it into your cable modem, and never pay for a land line again. I bought Ooma 2 years ago and it paid for itself in about 6 months of phone bills.
If it's for the same money, I'd prefer only having one number. I love the fact that my cellphone is My Phone no matter where I am.
It's not really very much of a win for me, is it? I mean, basically I'm paying $250 for the privilege of paying AT&T dollars per gigabyte for traffic that goes through my own broadband connection that I'm already paying for. I can't even begin to understand... why I would do that.
I have one. I recently moved to an area with very poor AT&T coverage. I am under contract with AT&T, and I wasn't pleased with the prospect of having to go outside every time I wanted to make or receive a phone call from my house, so this seemed good for me. I bought one for $150 (not $250). It works, but not very well. On some calls I get fairly severe audio distortion that makes it hard to understand people. I'm no…
I'm coming up on 3 years of use for my T-Mobile Blackberry Curve 8320 w/ UMA support. Still waiting for an all-around better device and network setup for my usage pattern (messaging/emailing a lot, talking a lot, maps, occasional web browsing). While the T-Mobile coverage has sucked plenty in certain areas, I've had nearly 3 years of satisfaction that if there's a wifi network, I have coverage -- in various apartment…